Tag: Michelle Anderson

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Last chance to see people not fighting for toilet paper

By:  Diane Benjamin VOTE Bloomington sample ballots:  https://www.becvote.org/wordpress/electiondatesandoffices/specimen-ballot/ Everywhere but Bloomington:  https://www.mcleancountyil.gov/692/Sample-Ballots You have to vote either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or nonpartisan (only matters for Letory and El Paso-Gridley Schools). Picking a party doesn’t make you a member of that party.  It does prevent you from seeing the same old names on the ballot again in […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

More on Michelle Anderson – County Auditor

By:  Diane Benjamin The statement below is from the City of Bloomington’s CAFR for the year ended 4/30/2019.  Yes, they finally got around to posting it but it still hasn’t been presented to the Council.  Of course data that is 6 months old is pretty useless in the private sector, why care about what government […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Michelle Anderson has something to hide – Update

Update: I talked to the former County Auditor Jackie Dozier.  The credit card assigned to Michelle Anderson is also used by departments that do not have their own credit card.  That may account for at least some of the redactions.    My FOIA request was for all charges and receipts to the Auditors credit card, […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Somebody should watch the “WATCHDOG”

by:  Diane Benjamin See this post from yesterday:  http://blnnews.com/2014/04/04/mclean-county-michelle-anderson-investigation/ County Auditor Michelle Anderson ran for office calling herself a watchdog.  Evidently the rules apply to other offices, not to hers.  As reported yesterday, she paid for new furniture for her office out of a personnel fund. the $13,000 should have been returned to the County […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

McLean County-Michelle Anderson investigation

by:  Diane Benjamin According to the Pantagraph, County Auditor Michelle Anderson has been questioned by the County Finance Committee concerning the purchase of new furniture for her office.  Evidently the furniture wasn’t budgeted, the money came from a personnel account.  The question now is whether she will be held accountable for shifting money.  The Pantagraph […]